No Way! The Democrats are racial profiling?

Why have they come out both barrels firing against the United Arab Emirates providing port service? Is it possible that they do believe that Arabs pose a threat to the US? Is it possible they believed that all along and they lied about it? The UAE did not attack us. Why take it out on them? Wow, it's because it's an Arab country. So racial profiling is only okay when democrats do it. Quick call airport security and tell them it’s now okay to frisk suspicious looking Arab men!

I have a theory why President Bush is for this deal and it’s a wild one. There is a snowball chance in hell it’s legitimate but here me out. First let us look at some facts about the UAE pointed out by James S. Robbins in the National Review.

December 2004: Dubai was the first government in the region to sign on to the U.S. Container Security Initiative to screen all containers heading for the United States for security risks.

May 2005: Dubai signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to bar passage of nuclear material from passing through its ports, and install radiation-detecting equipment.

June 2005: The UAE joined the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

October 2005: The UAE Central Bank directed banks and financial institutions in the country to tighten their internal systems and controls in their fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. UAE banks routinely cooperate with U.N. and international law-enforcement agencies in supplying information about suspect accounts.

November 2005: In the wake of the terror bombings in Jordan, General Shaykh Muhammad Bin-Zayid Al Nuhayyan, heir apparent of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the UAE armed forces, stated that “Muslim scholars who live among us must adopt a stand toward this terrorism… If they do not declare [terrorists] to be infidels, they should at least consider them as non-Muslims. …If there are no honest stands toward these non-religious and inhumane operations, these [attacks] will continue.”

December 2005: The UAE National Consultative Council called for declaration of an all-out war against terrorism and depriving any person who pledges allegiance to foreign extremist groups the right of UAE citizenship. The council proclaimed that it regarded links to such groups as high treason.

The UAE has also assisted the Coalition effort in Iraq, in particular training Iraqi security forces and sending material assistance to the Iraqi people.



The U.S. does not run any of the ports in the country. After the British sell these 6, they will no longer run any port operations either, here or in Europe, they are all outsourced. The UAE already runs many port operations through out the world. Most of the containers coming into the US from Germany, France and China are already from ports managed by the UAE. The security of our ports remains the same. It is the responsibility of the Port Authority, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and Homeland Security.

With all this said there are reasons for concern. Support for Hamas by the UAE, money laundering and some of the 9/11 hijackers traveled through the UAE to get here. Then again we knew. We know about the money laundering, we knew about the operatives in the country before 9/11. Could it be that the UAE is a pretty good informant? 80% of the wealth in the UAE is western money. 1 in 80 people in the UAE is a millionaire. The UAE is the richest country in the world per capita. Could it be they want to preserve their western like life style? Out of one side of their mouth they support their neighbors (understanding the size of their country and where they are) and out of the other side they support the western world? Is it possible this is an “information line” the security of this nation might need? President Bush hasn’t hesitated on pulling the trigger to kill known terrorist. From a drone fired hellfire missile to blow up a car to bombing a building in Pakistan knowing there would be civilian casualties and a massive political fall out, yet he did it any way. Then why this bone head move? Is it possible we, the public don’t know how much information the United Arab Emirates are giving us. Yes maybe there is something Senator Rockefeller or the NY Times hasn’t leaked yet.